The Drug Treatment System and its key transitions, Ian Wardle October 2009

8 page booklet detailing the records that are kept by drug services about their clients and in what circumstances information is shared. Includes information about the National Drug Treatment Monitoring System and the Treatments Outcome Profile.

The poster and postcards feature information on: drinking, driving and overcrowding cars; advertising; alcohol content; drinking to appear hard, risky situations; drinking alone and helping friends. Space is provided for local information.

In January the Department of Health published a joint health and social care white paper; ‘Our health, our care, our say: a new direction for community services’. A case study under the Chapter ‘Ensuring our reforms put people in control’ describes a service for ‘drug and alcohol misusers’.

Sometimes we bristle and feel resentful; may even withdraw or go the other way when someone tries to take the lead in a joint venture, while at other times we feel relieved and would have got nowhere unless they did. So too in addiction treatment